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; but no h or injury was by any of them. The rebels have not dated to show themselves in the vicinity of their abandoned work since, and by this they have proved their wisdom. This is the manner in which the rebels are checkmated on the Upper Potomac. A Resume of the news. It was recently announced by telegraph that Jeff Davis has threatened if the Missouri bridge burners are shot that he will, in retalition, hang Colonels Corcoran, Lee, , Wood, and others, who were taken prisoners of war. Five Union men, charged with bridge burning, have already been executed in Tennessee, under the following order, issued by J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of War of the Southern Confederacy, dated Nov. 23, 1861, and directed to the rebel Col. W. H. Wood, in East Tennessee: "All such as can be identified as having been engaged in bridge burning are to be, tried summarily by drumhead court-martial, and, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging. It would be well to leave thei